350 OF THE MENSTRUA. 



disease, wJtich continue more than twenty-four hours, 

 have hitherto appeared among the mysteries of animal 

 nature. 



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NOTE. 



I have known some women bear children before they had ever 

 menstruated and others after menstruation had entirely ceased. 



Neither is the pleasure of coition requisite to impregnation, 

 for the mother of one of Napoleon's generals, as well as of 

 other children, told a friend of mine " Qu'elle n'avoit eu que les 

 douleurs d'enfanter," and the late Dr. Heberden has the follow- 

 ing passage : — " Duo mariti mihi narrarunt uxores suas in ve- 

 nerem fuisse frigidas, omni ejus cupiditate et voluptate carentes ; 

 saepe tamen gravidas factas esse, et recte peperisse." * 



* Commentarii tie morborum historia et curatione. Cap. 43. 



